Elizabeth Kelley Erickson

Artist Statement

Solitary time spent among the rocks and sea on the Maine coast during the global pandemic has offered me increasingly subtle guidance, witnessing, listening and primal alignment with the elements. Nature is my teacher – providing a refreshed sense of our ancient and impermanent home. It has become clear that when we open to the joy of nature, nature takes joy in us. This sense of reciprocity and interconnectedness is core to my life and work. Whether working in-studio or on location, rich sensory and internal experiences are transmuted with paint into a pictorial language of observational abstraction.